Today’s warehouses and distribution centres face a lot of challenges: increasing labour costs, less available space and frequent small orders with short delivery times. It’s a constant search for solutions that reduce operational costs, generate higher productivity, optimise space utilisation and enable high service levels. Vanderlande Industries is a leading supplier of automated warehouses and distribution centres, with a track record of over 1,000 satisfied customers in a wide range of industries. We provide flexible solutions, for all types of business. And at LogiMAT 2014 we will present the next step in flexible warehouse automation, as well as a new service solution: EYE4YOU.

Key technology

Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) are a key technology in modern warehouse logistics, and are beneficial in a range of warehouse processes: bulk storage, order picking and order consolidation. AS/RS systems enable storage density to be increased by up to 60%. Vanderlande Industries offers the QUICKSTORE range of AS/RS systems. The QUICKSTORE range includes various miniloads, the HDS shuttle system and the Microshuttle. QUICKSTORE AS/RS systems can be equipped with many different load handling devices. QUICKSTORE AS/RS systems are developed and manufactured by Beewen, a Vanderlande Industries company which is one of the leading European suppliers of AS/RS systems.

Efficient and accurate order picking

Order picking accounts for up to 60% of warehouse costs. Processing customer orders quickly and accurately also has a direct impact on customer satisfaction. Automated order picking systems can increase your productivity up to 1,000 lines per man-hour, improve your picking accuracy up to 99.99% and enable you to deliver higher customer service levels. Selecting the best order picking system for your business depends on the characteristics of your operation and products. We offer a broad range of order picking systems for loose products, cases and pallets, including zone picking systems, goods-to-man systems and batch picking systems, right up to fully automated case picking and tote picking systems.

Ergonomic solutions

Our customers want to offer their employees an attractive working environment while at the same time achieving high productivity and short learning curves. Vanderlande Industries is aware that workstation design is a critical success factor to achieve high employee engagement. That’s why we invented the @EASE workstation range: its proven ergonomics enable operators to maintain high productivity for sustained working periods.

Through the eyes of the customer

EYE4YOU is a new service solution for effective remote support. If customers choose for hotline and helpdesk support with EYE4U, they can directly show our support engineers what is happening using real-time video images! That’s a big help in situations that can be difficult to explain. EYE4U is wereable video technology that is compact and easy to use, leaving the hands free to locate and point out details. It also provides two-way voice communication, replacing the telephone as the means of contact. Live images save time in diagnosing and correcting situations, thereby improving uptime and increasing the system availability. These images help to overcome possible language problems and communication misunderstandings, contributing to the most effective possible service response time.

Flexible solutions meet changing market demands

Through our in-depth understanding of business processes in warehousing and distribution, we provide competitive automated solutions for goods receiving, storage, order picking, consolidation and shipping.

We enable our customers to reduce their operational costs and improve delivery performance. Our flexible solutions meet the changing market demands. Our systems, services and software solutions focus on improving the logistics processes and increasing logistics performance today, tomorrow and throughout the entire life cycle. We co-operate closely with our customers, extending from initial business process analysis through to total life-cycle support. We are a global player with experience in a wide range of industries. Our headquarters are in Veghel, the Netherlands, but our local Customer Centres handle all key business functions and maintain direct contact with our customers. Exceeding customer expectations is what drives us, reflected by our core value: ‘building reputations with customers’.

Visit Vanderlande at LogiMAT 2014, Hall 1, Stand 731, from February 25-27 in Stuttgart Germany to find out all about us!